Martin Sheen
Known for Acting · 346 credits
- Born
- 1940-08-03 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Dayton, Ohio, USA
- Also known as
- Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez · Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez Phelan
Biography
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979), as U.S. President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999–2006), and as Robert Hanson in the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022).
In film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. Sheen's portrayal of Capt. Willard in Apocalypse Now earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor.
Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, including Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Oliver Stone. Sheen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989. In television, Sheen has won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the role of President Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest starring in the sitcom Murphy Brown. In 2012, he portrayed Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man directed by Marc Webb.
Born and raised in the United States by a Spanish father and an Irish mother, he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of four children, all of whom are actors.
Sheen has directed one film, Cadence (1990), in which he appears alongside his sons Charlie and Ramón. He has narrated, produced, and directed documentary television, earning two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s, and has been active in liberal politics.
Known For
TV Shows (82)
The Simpsons
1989
as Real Seymour Skinner (voice)
Two and a Half Men
2003
as Harvey
Columbo
1971
as Karl Lessing
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self (uncredited)
The Colbert Report
2005
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The West Wing
1999
as Josiah Bartlet
The View
1997
as Self / Self - Guest
Mannix
1967
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self / Self - Nominee / Self - Nominee / Presenter / Self - Winner
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as Self
Ironside
1967
as Johnny
Love, American Style
1969
as Dr. Art Parmel
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Eddie Calhao / Arthur Dixon
Mission: Impossible
1966
as Lieutenant Albert Brocke
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Nature
1982
as Narrator (voice)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Spin City
1996
as Ray Harris / Ray Crawford
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
2007
as Self
Cannon
1971
The F.B.I.
1965
as Norman Gretzler / Perry Victor / Steve Chandler / Neil Harland
Grace and Frankie
2015
as Robert Hanson
Naked City
1958
as Phillip Kosnik / Nick (uncredited) / Counterman
Medical Center
1969
as Glen
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Kraygen / Thomas Miller / Zorbin the Magnificent
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
as Paul Dano
Route 66
1960
The Defenders
1961
as Arnold McCabe / Dino Locatelli / Joey Americus / Adam Novins
The Rookies
1972
Anger Management
2012
as Martin Goodson
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
as Sly Sludge (voice)
The Outer Limits
1963
as Pvt. Arthur Dix
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Wild Cards
2024
as Jonathan Ashford
The Mod Squad
1968
as Danny Morgan
Lancer
1968
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Father Kinsella
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
as Radio Host
Flipper
1964
as Phil Adams
Arrest and Trial
1963
as Dale Beatty
Ghost Story
1972
as Frank
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
as Self
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
2006
as Narrator (voice)
The Nurses
1962
as Saunders / Carl
Toma
1973
as Eddie Siatti
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
Total Recall 2070
1999
Dan August
1970
as Norman Sayles
Alex Haley's Queen
1993
as James Jackson Sr.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Taxi Driver
Gun
1997
as Van Guinness
For the People
1965
as Louis Cahane
The Meaning of Life
2009
as Self
Celebrity Poker Showdown
2003
as Self
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
as Chet Dettlinger
Chicken Soup for the Soul
1999
Movies (264)
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
as Uncle Ben
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
as Uncle Ben (uncredited)
Apocalypse Now
1979
as Captain Benjamin Willard
Catch Me If You Can
2002
as Roger Strong
The Departed
2006
as Queenan
JFK
1991
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (uncredited)
Spawn
1997
as Jason Wynn
Dead Presidents
1995
as The Judge
Gandhi
1982
as Vince Walker
Wall Street
1987
as Carl Fox
The Final Countdown
1980
as Warren Lasky
The American President
1995
as A.J. MacInerney
Gettysburg
1993
as Gen. Robert E. Lee
The Way
2010
as Tom
Catch-22
1970
as 1st Lt. Dobbs
The Cassandra Crossing
1976
as Robby Navarro
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021
as J. Edgar Hoover
Badlands
1974
as Kit Carruthers
The Dead Zone
1983
as Greg Stillson
Bobby
2006
as Jack Stevens
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2016
as Martin Sheen
Echelon Conspiracy
2009
as Raymond Burke
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012
as Frank Petersen
O
2001
as Coach Duke Goulding
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
1976
as Frank Hallet
Love Happens
2009
as Donald, Burke's Father-in-Law
Cadence
1990
as MSgt. Otis V. McKinney
Firestarter
1984
as Captain Hollister
Trash
2014
as Padre Juilliard
Selma
2014
as Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)
The Double
2011
as Tom Highland
Salinger
2013
as Self - Actor
The Believers
1987
as Cal Jamison
12 Mighty Orphans
2021
as Doc Hall
Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Noah Dietrich
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
as Self
Ask Me Anything
2014
Rage
1972
as Maj. Holliford
The Maid
1991
as Anthony Wayne
Hostile Waters
1997
as Aurora Skipper
Imagine That
2009
as Dante D'Enzo
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
1997
as Sir
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
as Alan (voice)
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
Bordertown
2007
as George Morgan
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012
as Self
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self
Original Intent
1992
as Homeless Joe
Sweet Hostage
1975
as Leonard Hatch
Enigma
1982
as Alex Holbeck
Anne of Green Gables
2016
as Matthew Cuthbert
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
2020
as Josiah Bartlet
Free Money
1998
as Guard
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008
as Self
The Break
1995
as Gil Robbins
Lost & Found
1999
as Millstone
Project: ALF
1996
as Colonel Gilbert Milfoil
The Devil Has a Name
2019
as Ralph
The Time Shifters
1999
as Grifasi
Talk to Me
2007
as E.G. Sonderling
The Nomi Song
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987
as Narrator
Roswell
1994
as Townsend
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1993
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
as Self
The Incident
1967
as Artie Connors
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Come Sunday
2018
as Oral Roberts
No Code of Conduct
1999
as Bill Peterson
Dillinger and Capone
1995
as John Dillinger
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
1998
as Soul Hunter
The Missiles of October
1974
as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
1987
as James Marion Hunt
Hear No Evil
1993
as Lt. Brock
Pickup on 101
1972
as Lester Baumgartner
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013
as Self
Siesta
1987
as Del
The War at Home
1996
as Bob Collier
Judgment in Berlin
1988
as Herbert J. Stern
Stella Days
2012
as Fr. Daniel Barry
The Fourth Wise Man
1985
as Artaban
Fortunes of War
1994
as Francis Labeck
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Up
2011
as Self
The Catholics
1973
as Father Kinsella
I Love Liberty
1982
as Self
Monument Ave.
1998
as Hanlon
Voyage of Terror
1998
as Henry Northcutt
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
1996
as Peter Maurin
Storm
1999
as General James Roberts
The Execution of Private Slovik
1974
as Eddie Slovik
Princess of the Row
2020
as John Austin
The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island
2018
as James Alden (voice)
Badge of Honor
2015
as Captain Daniel Richards
A Texas Funeral
1999
as Grandpa Sparta
Out of the Darkness
1985
as Eddie Zigo
8
2012
as Theodore Olson
The Water Engine
1992
as Chain Letter Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Broken Rainbow
1985
as Narrator (voice)
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991
as Harold Hohne
The Commission
2003
as Dep. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
Nightbreaker
1989
as Dr. Alexander Brown - Present
Pursuit
1972
as Timothy Drew
Who Killed the Electric Car?
2006
as Self - Narrator (voice)
One of Her Own
1994
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Pete Maresca
Shadrach
1998
as Narrator (voice)
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
1986
as Mitch Snyder
Eagle's Wing
1979
as Pike
Lost & Found in Cleveland
2025
as Dr. Austin Raybourne
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
1977
as Self
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1972
as Graytak
The Boxcar Children
2014
as Grandfather Alden (voice)
Hits!
1994
as Kelly
The Whale
2013
as Tom Nickerson
The California Kid
1974
as Michael McCord
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
2007
as Narrator
Grey Knight
1993
as Gen. Haworth
The Subject Was Roses
1968
as Timmy Cleary
Loophole
1981
as Stephen Booker
About Martin Sheen
Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor. He first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role as Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979), as U.S. President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999–2006), and as Robert Hanson in the Netflix television series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022). In film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San S… With 346 credits spanning from 1944 to 2025, Martin Sheen has appeared in 264 films and 82 TV shows.
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Most Popular Martin Sheen Movies
- The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) — as Uncle Ben
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) — as Uncle Ben (uncredited)
- Apocalypse Now (1979) — as Captain Benjamin Willard
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) — as Roger Strong
- The Departed (2006) — as Queenan
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